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"In researching our amazing immune system responses, I learned that when something enters our system that our body does not want, our body sends out its own sort of military to go after these invaders. Our great internal military are called white cells, and like the army, navy, air force, or marines, we have different branches. The white cells such as leukocytes, phagocytes, eosoinophils, neutrophils, and monocytes are the various branches of our body's internal military, each responding and mobilizing its forces depending on the type of threatening invaders." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"While leptin is managing the peacetime energetic function of the human body, it does so while wearing a military uniform. In reality, new science is showing that the immune system is far more than just the military. It coordinates the entire communication and repair system of the human body. The first phase of almost any military campaign is highly inflammatory. Leptin uses an immune signal called TNFa to carry out its inflammatory orders as well as many routine communications." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"Larry was also disturbed to know that Matthew, as someone who was older than twelve and currently on Ritalin, would be ineligible for military service (along with over 80 percent of his generation, which was riddled with the disqualifying disorders of learning disabilities, obesity, asthma, severe allergies, ADHD, and autism). The military obviously considered Ritalin use to be a stigma-who else would? Despite all this, Matthew seemed to be making his way in the world. He had good friends, was a star on the school baseball team, and tried out for football but didn't like it." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Many of these vets believe they got sick due to some exposure they experienced while on military duty, or perhaps to a vaccination they had to have for their military service. Although there is little evidence to support their beliefs, I don't tell them they are wrong, because we may never really know what triggered their illness. Being dismissive of a vet's deeply held conviction before our discussion has really gotten under way is less important than listening and setting up the groundwork for real two-way communication." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The military personnel had no choice but to receive these dangerous vaccinations. In the end the report stated, there were 43% that had side effects from the vaccinations during the Gulf War. Repeat: 43%. The black book about military vaccination has not yet been written. Data on the first Iraq war exists; the 2nd Iraq war is not even evaluated yet. But this much is known, and again vaccinations were the talk of the day. And soldiers face demotion, fines and even dismissal when they don't obey. Despite the horrific findings, anthrax vaccine in 2003 was reinstated." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"They were searching for ways to overcome the logistical problems of producing edible food in a short time, and to be able to reduce the amount and bulk of cooking fuels that would be required to support their planned operations for the military invasion of Russia.19 At the end of the war, the United States' War Department and the Soviet Union obtained the German microwave research and some of the devices. They took them home for further study." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"During the Cold War, the Soviets looked for a medicine that could boost energy, improve memory, and enhance performance so they could give their military an edge and improve the stamina and performance of their cosmonauts. Soviet scientists documented a wide range of benefits associated with R. rosea from calming the stress response and increasing energy to enhancing physical and mental performance under stress. According to author Peter Jaret, this "superherb" was very nearly lost to Cold War politics. Protecting the Brain Because it is an adaptogen, R." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "C significantly reduced the number of colds experienced by people involved in rigorous exercise in very cold environments—for example, military men involved in training maneuvers in northern Canada during the winter and children attending skiing camp in the Swiss Alps. That said, taking vitamin C at the onset of a cold, which is what a lot of people do, won't stop it. Personally, I say "Who cares?" The whole "controversy" over whether vitamin C can help with the common cold takes focus away from its far more important functions and uses. Let's start with the immune system." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"During World Wars I and II, physical exams were used to assess the fitness of military recruits (these exams showed a "disconcertingly high percentage of physical defects among supposedly healthy young men"12) and were required annually for all officers of the army and navy. The practice became common and expedient.13 In 2000, complete physical examinations accounted for about 64 million visits out of 823 million visits overall." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The rising popularity of homeopathy was noted by the Anglo-Indian press, one journal observing in 1852 that homeopathy was 'extensively practiced by amateurs, in the civil and military services'. By the very nature of empire, enthusiasts in these two groups were to be found in even the most remote outposts of empire. The same author noted that as a result, '[there is] scarcely a large district in India in which such an amateur has not for years been diffusing benefits around him." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "This sometimes overbearing cultural self-confidence combined with the forces of military and economic consolidation in the form of the 'civilizing mission'. And as I've suggested above, medicine was to play a central role in that mission. The British response to smallpox in India offers one of the clearest and earliest examples of the fit between medicine and the 'civilizing mission'." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Gout seemed to seek out the most powerful men of government affairs and the military, disturbing their minds as well as their comfort. As Temple noted, these men were rarely under 40, 'at about which time, the natural heat beginning to decay, makes room for those distempers they are most inclined to by their Native Constitutions, or by their customs and habits of life'.12 And those constitutions, in Temple's experience, were likely to be weakened either by the luxurious taint of high birth, or by the excessive indulgences common to those newly enjoying the perquisites of power." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "But medical research found a home too in industry, in universities, and in governmental organizations of various types, ranging from public health laboratories to military installations. The twentieth century also witnessed the rise of third-party payers and, particularly in Western Europe, national health services. In either case, a new entity obtruded itself into the doctor—patient relationship." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"From the Bhopal disaster to the military use of herbicides like Agent Orange, agricultural chemicals have taken countless lives. The names of pesticides like Bravo, Monitor, Champ and Goal have a school-yard innocence that belies these precision snipers' deadly effects. Miticides target mites; herbicides decimate weeds; fungicides murder molds; and rodenticides snuff out small animals. Systemics are chemicals that course through the entire tree: roots, trunk, limbs, branches, sap, flowers, fruits and seeds. Then we eat them." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "As papers released by the Library of Congress in 1995 reveal, the company played a decisive role in the military coup that ousted the government of Guatemala in 1954, crippling the nation for decades. They also knowingly exposed workers to lethal levels of pesticides. The use of DBCP which battles rootworms, resulted in more than thirty thousand South American men becoming sterile. In 1975, the company's CEO, Eli M. Black, committed suicide with a spectacular self-defenestration from his forty-fourth-floor office onto Park Avenue below." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"In 2004, the country's first clinical trial began at a California military base to test a compound that just might prevent noise-induced hearing loss. They're calling it the Hearing Pill. Its active ingredient is a powerful compound called N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), which is known to have a number of positive effects on the body, not the least of which is to protect the liver. In a study at the University of Michigan, researchers blasted unfortunate guinea pigs with rock concert-level noise for five hours, resulting in a hearing loss of up to 50 db." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"All we usually get is a variety called Tommy Atkins, an early twentieth-century military term for a faceless soldier. It's a fitting designation. Tommy Atkins mangoes are rugged, robust and fibrous warriors fit for the rigors of international commerce. They barely resemble delicious South Asian mango cultivars like the madhuduta (messenger of fragrance), kamang (embodiment of Cupid), kokilavasa (abode of cuckoos) and kamavallabha (the amorous)." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The Navy's Secret Weapon If you were trying to pick a population of folks who are really in danger of losing their hearing, you couldn't come up with a better group than members of the military. Think about it. They shoot weapons. They're in battle. The noise level is phenomenal. As Dr. Wang on Grey's Anatomy might say, "That can't be good." It's no accident that in every movie you've seen where someone is practicing shooting at a firing range he's wearing headphones!" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"A large percentage of young adults ages seventeen through twenty, from whom military recruits are drawn, do not meet U.S. military weight standards. Weights are particularly high among minority youth, who form a disproportionate percentage of those in military service.91 Personal Responsibility Our stance on the causes of obesity is admittedly deterministic—with the right biology and a bad enough environment, the average person will become overweight. But how does this square with personal responsibility? Do people have any control over the way they eat and how much they exercise?" - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"Governments seek to contain violence through organized war- 8 fare; world military spending has risen for the past eight years running and has reached more than one trillion dollars a year. • One in three urban dwellers in the world live in slums, shanty-towns, and urban ghettos. More than 900 million people are classified as slum-dwellers. In the poorest countries 78 percent of the urban population subsists under life-threatening circumstances." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Global military spending experiences a sharp rise, as the U.S. and its allies and the opposing bloc countries enter the spiral of an arms race. • Global economic stagnation combined with U.S. unilateralism weakens the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization. As regional economic agreements become more attractive than multilateral trade arrangements and bilateral trade with the U.S., trade wars become frequent and destabilizing. • North-South trade agreements are cancelled and trade flows disrupted; the international economic/financial system is in shambles." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Maintaining it required a constant exercise of military power. Today the nature of power is different, but the belief about the use of war to achieve political—and now also economic—objectives is much the same. Like the ancient Romans, during the Bush administrations the U.S. believed that maintaining world supremacy called for "sending in the marines." But the twenty-first century world is not the classical world: it is more interactive and interdependent, and its social, economic, and ecological systems operate dangerously close to the edge of sustainability." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Every fifteen minutes we come to a military roadblock. Invariably, as the gendarmes go through my papers, they try to squeeze payments out of me. One officer asks if it has occurred to me that I have no idea who these men are and that they could be taking me hostage. Shouting matches ensue. As dawn is breaking, we arrive at a crumbling, vine-covered, plaster cube building on the grounds of Limbe's 110-year-old botanical garden. I set up my mosquito tent and fall asleep immediately." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"You might think of them as the officers who make sure that T cells perform their military training exercises just right. Scientists aren't completely sure how, in a perfectly healthy immune system, these teacher or regulatory T cells neutralize other T cells so that they almost never erroneously target your own tissue in an autoimmune response (or, as scientists put it, so that all T cells stay "tolerant" of your body's own cells)." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Yet, until 1875, observations of Indian weather conditions were unsystematic and unreliable, despite the dedicated efforts of a few scientists and military officers. Rightly concerned about the safety of its merchant ships, the East India Company directed most of its research from the late eighteenth century toward studying the tropical cyclones that ravaged the Bay of Bengal every summer. The monsoon was ignored until a disastrous famine in 1866 led to the founding of the Indian Meteorological Service nine years later." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Each pushed the Theban boundary farther downstream beyond Aby-dos, setting the stage for the hard-fought military campaigns of Men-tuhotep I, who came to the Theban throne in 2060 B.C. and reigned for half a century. The early years of his reign saw much bitter fighting, culminating in a rebellion by Abydos in 2046. Mentuhotep put the rebellion down with decisive severity, reunited Egypt under his rule, and became known as the "Uniter of the Two Lands." Thus began the Middle Kingdom, two and a half centuries of prosperity and abundance." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In reality, new science is showing that the immune system is far more than just the military. It coordinates the entire communication and repair system of the human body. The first phase of almost any military campaign is highly inflammatory. Leptin uses an immune signal called TNFa to carry out its inflammatory orders as well as many routine communications. TNFa stands for Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha, a name given to it because it will wipe out tumors if given the opportunity to do so. Like adrenaline, TNFa is an irritant that must have "oil" in order to function normally." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"In two short years, Menninger assertively brought psychiatry into the mainstream of military life. Menninger's ability to act as psychiatry's salesman, both during and after the war, was helped immeasurably by his hypernormal, squeaky-clean Chamber of Commerce image. As Time wrote in 1948, "Dr. Will Menninger himself is a convincing explanation of why the public is getting less skittish about psychiatry. Plainly neither a crackpot nor a foreigner, Psychiatrist Menninger is a big (6 ft. 1 in., 189 lbs.), friendly 'nice guy' . . ." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

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